King in Aetolia and father of the horseman Oeneus and his brothers, the trunk from which the Calydonian heroic line springs.1
Homer names him Portheus and sets his sons in Pleuron and steep Calydon: to Portheus were born three peerless sons, Agrius and Melas, and the third the horseman Oeneus, pre-eminent among them in valour.2
In the genealogist's fuller catalogue, by Euryte, daughter of Hippodamas, Porthaon begot Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, and Leucopeus, and a daughter Sterope, who is said to have been the mother of the Sirens by Achelous.3
Pausanias too counts Alcathous among the sons of Porthaon, naming him, on the authority of the epic Great Eoeae, one of the suitors of Hippodameia whom Oenomaus killed in the fatal chariot-course.4
Hyginus calls Oeneus, son of Porthaon, king of Aetolia — he whose neglect of Diana, when he sacrificed to all the gods but omitted her, loosed the Calydonian boar upon his land.5
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